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Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 12:52 AM
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ddevil
Joined: Jul 24, 2007
Posts: 1351
Location: Stowing away in Daron's spaceship with a box of Oreos and water.
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I just think this is a beautiful, emotional piece of music. I wish I could sing it at school, but alas. The downside of going to a predominately black school with a choir teacher from Ohio 
If I get a solo in April, I'm definitely singing this song. If the other kids don't like it, well, my ass hasn't been kissed in awhile.
Latin:
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
English:
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are constantly changing,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me! |
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Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 02:49 AM
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Marmalade
Joined: Jul 05, 2006
Posts: 2165
Location: In the forest of denial.
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| Isn't that piece just called "O Fortuna" and the whole opera is "Carmina Burana?" Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was my understanding of it. Carl Orff was a talented fellow. |
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Posted: Mar 31, 2008 - 02:45 AM
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Needle
Joined: Oct 29, 2006
Posts: 3528
Location: the shell of a hermit crab
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